Comparative characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from throats and noses of healthy volunteers

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-24

  Uemura, Emiko ^a   Kakinohana, Shige ^a   Higa, Naomi ^a   Toma, Claudia ^a   Nakasone, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFDINIR; ERYTHROMYCIN; METICILLIN; OXACILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NOSE; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROAT; VOLUNTEER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE CAVITY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHARYNX; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NASAL CAVITY; PHARYNX; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 1642442021     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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